GeForce MX550 vs ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated402
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data33.97
ArchitectureR400 (2004−2008)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameRS600TU117S
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date28 February 2007 (17 years ago)17 December 2021 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data1024
Core clock speed501 MHz1065 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1320 MHz
Number of transistors120 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data25 Watt
Texture fill rate2.00442.24
Floating-point processing powerno data2.703 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs432

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
WidthIGPno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSystem SharedGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared2 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data96 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0b (9_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.7 (6.4)
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 February 2007 17 December 2021
Chip lithography 90 nm 12 nm

GeForce MX550 has an age advantage of 14 years, and a 650% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP and GeForce MX550. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP is a desktop card while GeForce MX550 is a notebook one.


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ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 IGP
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